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Arsenal have announced the appointment of former Manchester United defender Gabriel Heinze to Mikel Arteta's backroom staff.
The Argentine, who spent three seasons at the Gunners' rivals during his playing days, replaces the outgoing Carlos Cuesta, who left to take charge of Parma.
In a statement on Tuesday, Arsenal said: 'We are delighted to announce the appointment of Gabriel Heinze to our coaching staff as men’s first team coach.'
A tough-tackling defender during his playing career, Heinze played 83 games for the Red Devils and won the Premier League title with United in the 2006-07 campaign.
He also represented Real Madrid, Marseille and Roma, while he won 72 caps for Argentina.
Heinze and Arteta were team-mates at Paris Saint-Germain in the 2001-02 season, when the latter was just starting to establish himself in senior football.
Arsenal have announced the appointment of former Manchester United defender Gabriel Heinze to Mikel Arteta 's backroom staff
The Argentine, who spent three seasons at the Gunners' rivals during his playing days, replaces the outgoing Carlos Cuesta (right)
Arsenal monitored Heinze last year when Cuesta was linked with the managerial job at Norwich City.
During his managerial career Heinze has been in charge of five clubs - Godoy Cruz, Argentinos Juniors, Velez Sarsfield, Atlanta United and Newell's Old Boys.
Arteta will hope that adding further experience to his backroom staff will help Arsenal in their quest to win the Premier League title.
The Gunners have finished in second place in the league for three seasons in succession.
In what is becoming an increasingly busy summer, the north London club have alredy signed goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga from Chelsea and midfielder Martin Zubimendi from Real Sociedad.
The club are also close to completing the signing of Christian Norgaard from Brentford and are in advanced talks with Sporting Lisbon over the signing of Viktor Gyokeres.
